By Vishala Pariag and Kajol Char. This article originally appeared on Politics for Tomorrow.

Internet services across the country are unlikely to be impacted over the next 48 hours even as the Domain Name System (DNS) servers undergo a security update coordinated by global regulator, Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
The article by an HT correspondent was published in the Hindustan Times on October 12, 2018. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

The Telangana government wants more eyes on the streets to upgrade Hyderabad’s safety. It has asked enterprises, public sectors, residential associations and individuals to install closed-circuit television cameras (CCTVs) in and around their premises.
The article by Rahul Sachitanand was published in Economic Times on October 14, 2018. Elonnai Hickok was quoted.

What if future generations in 2030 learned about gender inequality in their history class and not in their lived realities? What can rural women achieve when included in digital society? What can we do now to ensure a future without a gender digital gap?

Ambika Tandon was a participant in a roundtable organized by Facebook, School of Media & Cultural Studies, and Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Bengaluru on October 7, 2018.
The agenda for the roundtable was to discuss their community standards, particularly hate speech and harassment, and receive feedback from a feminist and gendered lens. Click to read more.

Anubha Sinha was recently part of a panel discussion on broadcast treaty.
The article by Catherine Saez was published in Intellectual Property Watch on October 9, 2018.

Swaraj Paul Barooah was a discussant at the Indian Feminist Judgment Project 'righting together' workshop organised in Delhi by Jindal from October 6 - 7, 2018.
Swaraj provided commentary on the re-writing of a patent application from a feminist perspective. Click here to view the agenda.

Foyer of the University library, Wilhelmstr. 32 10/23/2018With the help of the forum für internationale entwicklung + planenung (finep) in Esslingen, the School for Sustainability would like to make Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No 9 tangible. For this reason, the innovative learning tool for SDG 9 - Industrialisation, Innovation and Infrastructure developed by finep will be exhibited for the first time at a German university from 23.10.2018.

Der Dienstbetrieb der alten Telefonzentrale der HHU wurde bereits Ende des vergangenen Jahres eingestellt. Bei der Wahl der neuen Telefonnummer landet der Anrufer in einem automatischen, telefonischen Annahmesystem, wird durch dieses geleitet und bei Fragen, die das System nicht beantworten kann, mit einem Mitarbeiter des SSC verbunden.
Bei Fragen können Sie gerne per  E-Mail Kontakt aufnehmen. 

By Karis Hustad,
student in the Erasmus Mundus MA in Journalism, Media and Globalisation
at Aarhus University and City, University of London
 
 
 

Article by Mickael Temporão,  Yannick Dufresne,  Justin Savoie and Clifton van der Linden in International Journal of Forecasting: “People do not know much about politics. This is one of the most robust findings in political science and is backed by decades of research. Most of this research has focused on people’s ability to know about political issues and party positions on these issues. But can people predict elections?

Im Fokus stehen chemoresistente Tumoren und Infektionen mit chemoresistenten mikrobiellen Krankheitserregern. Beide Krankheitsformen zeichnen sich durch vielfältige Resistenzen gegenüber etablierten Arzneistoffen aus, die die Therapie stark eingrenzen oder völlig außer Kraft setzen. Als Pool für neue Leitstrukturen und als Ideengeber für potentielle neue Wirkstoffe zur Aufklärung von molekularen Wirk- und Resistenzmechanismen spielen Naturstoffe sowie davon abgeleitete Verbindungen eine zentrale Rolle.

P.B.Anand and JulioNavío-Marco in Special Issues of  Telecommunications Policy: “This editorial introduction to this special issue provides an overview and a conceptual framework of governance and economics of smart cities. We begin with a discussion of the background to smart cities and then it focuses on the key challenges for consideration in smart city economics.

Chapter by Laure Morel, Laurent Dupont and Marie‐Reine Boudarel in Collective Innovation Processes: Principles and Practices: “Innovation is a complex and multifaceted notion, sometimes difficult to explain. The category of innovation spaces includes co‐working spaces, third places, Living Labs, open labs, incubators, accelerators, hothouses, canteens, FabLabs, MakerSpaces, Tech Shops, hackerspaces, design factories, and so on.

Chava Gourarie at StoryBench: “Early this summer, at the height of the family separation crisis – where children were being forcibly separated from their parents at our nation’s border – a team of scholars pooled their skills to address the issue. The group of researchers – from a variety of humanities departments at multiple universities – spent a week of non-stop work mapping the immigration detention network that spans the United States.

Dani Rodrik at Project Syndicate: “New technologies reduce the prices of goods and services to which they are applied. They also lead to the creation of new products. Consumers benefit from these improvements, regardless of whether they live in rich or poor countries.

Sara Fisher at Axios: “Dozens of new initiatives have launched over the past few years to address fake news and the erosion of faith in the media, creating a measurement problem of its own.

Am 14. Oktober startete die Gruppe via Pisa zur italienischen Insel Elba. Bis zum 24. Oktober werden dort die Studierenden und Schüler, unterstützt von Biologen des Instituts für Molekulare Evolution der HHU, den Grad der Plastikkontamination sowohl an Land als auch im Meer untersuchen. Ihr Ausgangspunkt ist das Forschungsinstitut „Hydra“, welches ihnen Arbeitsräume, Expertise und notwendiges Equipment wie Mikroskope und Tauchgerät zur Verfügung stellt.

A conversation with Karl Sigmund at Edge: “…Now, I’m getting back to evolutionary game theory, the theory of evolution of cooperation and the social contract, and how the social contract can be subverted by corruption. That’s what interests me most currently. Of course, that is not a new story. I believe it explains a lot of what I see happening in my field and in related fields.

In this panel session from OPEN 2018 Arthur Brock, Co-founder, HOLO; Matthew Slater, Co-Founder of Community Forge and Emma McGuirk, Co-founder of Dunedin Timebank in New Zealand discuss the potential of a Co-op Coin and global mutual credit systems and consider whether any of the existing trading networks and models could be used to bring the co-operative economy to scale.
See the shared notes from this session too.